Movies like The Leviathan (2015)
The best movies like The Leviathan (2015) are FTL (2017), Smash and Grab (2019) and It has to be lived once and dreamed twice (2019). If The Leviathan hooked you with its action and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBlade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)7.1/10 from 466 votes
- NewestME (2024)Released 2024
FTL (2017)
A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisSmash and Grab (2019)
After years of toiling away inside the engine room of a towering locomotive, two antiquated robots will risk everything for freedom and for each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt has to be lived once and dreamed twice (2019)
In the sixth great mass mortality of the earth, humankind became extinct. Their technology had recently progressed so far as to deconstruct the algorithms of evolution and allow artificial life to develop on Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Corporate Monster (2019)
After being phased out of his job, a dangerously unstable man’s life spirals out of control when the prescription pills he takes start to have a side effect: they allow him to see the parasitic beings that have long been puppeteering our world from the shadows.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020)
On a rugged asteroid mining colony, few of the toiling workers are aware that their town drunk was ever anything but an interplanetary derelict. But when the miners open a fissure into the home of a horde of deadly alien insects, his true identity is exposed. He is space adventurer Adam Strange, whose heroic backstory is played out in flashbacks as he struggles to save the very people who have scorned him for so long.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrologue (2015)
Prologue depicts Spartan and Athenian warriors locked in a gory battle to the death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZero (2015)
A boy and his father are emotionally and physically separated on the day earth intermittently loses gravity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Coda (2013)
A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAdam (2016)
The Adam demo is a real-time-rendered short film created with the Unity engine by our demo team. It runs at 1440p on a GeForce GTX980 and was shown on the booths at our Unite Europe conference.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDC Showcase: Sgt. Rock (2019)
Just after recovering from losing his entire unit in battle, Sgt. Rock leads a special army of commandos against a Nazi secret research base.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhost in the Shell: Ghost Chaser (2018)
In the Kuzan Republic, the Minister of Defense, who is expected to take part in a meeting of the Next-generation Weapon Coordination Council, has ordered an advance onsite inspection. Public Security Section 9, headed by Major Motoko Kusanagi, must secure the area and clear it from a rumored terrorist threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Blinky™ (2011)
A story about a boy, his robot and the consequences of his anger at the disintegration of his parents marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDC Showcase: Death (2019)
Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAdam and Dog (2013)
The story about the dog of Eden. What happened in those first days of Creation that made Man and Dog so inseparable? The dog, as he lives through this curious world, encounters a strange creature; a human being named Adam - and with that discovers a new found connection to the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWanderers (2014)
This short film visualizes potential human exploration of the Solar System through a sequence of digitally reconstructed environments based on real astronomical data and spacecraft imagery. Depicting locations such as Mars, the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, and other celestial bodies, it presents speculative human activity grounded in existing scientific ideas, accompanied by narration from Carl Sagan’s "Pale Blue Dot".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFlatland (2007)
Set in a world of only two dimensions inhabited by sentient geometric shapes, the story follows Arthur Square and his ever-curious granddaughter Hex. When a mysterious visitor arrives from Spaceland, Arthur and Hex must come to terms with the truth of the third dimension, risking dire consequences from the evil Circles that have ruled Flatland for a thousand years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Ninety-Five Senses (2022)
A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
The Crush (2010)
Eight-year-old Ardal has a romantic heart and a passionate crush on his second-class teacher, Ms Purdy. But his dreams of marrying his love are dashed when she becomes engaged to her boyfriend, who Ardal deems entirely unacceptable. Inspired by his favourite western movies, he decides that his only course of action is to challenge his rival to a duel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisRakka (2017)
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBatman Beyond (2014)
This short celebrating 75 years of Batman from artist Darwyn Cooke returns fans to the world of Batman Beyond as Terry McGinnis' futuristic Dark Knight faces his most formidable foe of all - himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)
This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner 2049’s official timeline, this failure leads to cities shutting down, financial and trade markets being thrown into chaos, and food supplies dwindling. There’s no proof as to what caused the blackouts, but Replicants — the bio-engineered robots featured in the original Blade Runner, are blamed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDead Leaves (2004)
Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a crime spree in search of food and clothing, but are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous lunar penitentiary named Dead Leaves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIron Within (2023)
As Drukhari raiders plague an Imperial planet, the embattled Astra Militarum send out a desperate cry for help. Salvation arrives in the form of a force of Space Marines, but the population of the planet soon learn to be careful what they wish for...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Tome of the Unknown (2013)
Wirt and Gregory are brothers who get tired of walking, so, they borrow a car from a romantic songster made of vegetables.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisME (2024)
A musical odyssey about generational trauma and the retreat of humanity into itself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Leading Lady Parts (2018)
The best women of British acting go to an audition for a dream role, primed to take on the role of a lifetime: that complex woman, the strong woman, a woman for today.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlien: Specimen (2019)
During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTitan A.E. (2000)
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreen Lantern: First Flight (2009)
Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBen 10: Destroy All Aliens (2012)
Based on the original animated series Ben 10. Ben becomes targeted by an evil Mechamorph Warrior, named "Retaliator," who mistakenly blames Ben for something he did not do and attempts to destroy all aliens.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Leviathan?
The closest matches to The Leviathan are FTL (2017), Smash and Grab (2019) and It has to be lived once and dreamed twice (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Leviathan?
People who watched The Leviathan most often go on to FTL (2017), Smash and Grab (2019) and It has to be lived once and dreamed twice (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Leviathan?
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017), rated 7.1/10 by 466 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Leviathan?
ME (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Leviathan?
Yes: FTL (2017), Smash and Grab (2019) and It has to be lived once and dreamed twice (2019).
How are movies similar to The Leviathan chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Leviathan, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.